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COMBINED IRONING BOARD AND WASH BENCH. N0. 380 ,268 Patented Mar. 27," 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JoHN E. ROTH, OF COAL crrv, INDIANA.

COMBINED IRONING-BOARD AND WASH-BENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,268, dated March 2 1888- Application filed October 24, 1887. Serial No. 253,237. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN E. ROTH, of Coal City, in thecounty of Owen and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Ironing-Board and Wash-Bench; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use, it, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a combined ironing-board and wash-bench; and it consists in the combination of a suitable notched ground-sill,asuitable frame-work pivoted thereto and which is adapted to be inclined at different angles, and a pivoted brace by which the pivoted frame is held in position to receive either the ironing-board or the wash-bench, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to provide a frame-work which when placed at vone inclination receives a wash-bench,and when turned at another will receive an ironing-board, and thus adapt the frame-work to be used for entirely different purposes.

Figure l is a side elevation of a machine embodying my invention, showing it used as V a wash-bench. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the frame adapted to receive an ironingboard. Fig. 3 is a front view of the framework alone. i

A represents a sill which rests directly upon either the ground or floor, and which will be of any suitable length, and is provided with the notches B O in its top. J ournaled upon one end of this sill A is the vertical framework D, which can be adjusted to different angles, and which will be supported at any desired angle by means of the brace F, which is pivoted thereto, and which has its lower end to catch in the notches B 0, according to the use to which the frame-work is to be applied. The frame-work D consists of two uprights, which are united together at their lower ends by means of the bar G, which is of sufficient length to prevent the frame from upsetting while in use, and which has extending from its lower edge a projection, H, near each end, so as to catch upon the ground or floor, and thusprevent any rocking or tilting motion. The uprights are also connected near their upper ends by the cross-pieces G and by the cross-bar I, to which the brace is pivoted.

ward, and by resting upon the ground sup-- port the outer edge of the bench while it is in use. The frame while being used in connec tion with the wash-bench is placed at the an-r gle shown and the lower end of the brace is made to catch in the notch B in the top of the sill A.

When the frame-work is to be used in connection with an ironing-board, P, the frame is raised into a vertical position and the lower end of the brace ismade to catch in one of the notches, O. The ironing-board then has its end inserted between the four or0ss-barsG,

where it is securely held. In order to form a support for the clothes as fast as they are washed or wrung out, the endwise-sliding rod 0 is used, and which, when not in use, can be forced inward through the support in which it is held until its inner-end strikes against the support upon the opposite side. When the rod is to be used, it is drawn out through the side of the frame to its full extent, as shown in Fig. 3.

When a'sewing-table attachment is to be applied to the frame, it is raised into a vertical position, and then the sewing-table X, as,

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, has its end inserted between the bars G from the same side to which the washingbench is applied. Of course when the sewing-table is applied neither the wash-bench nor ironing-board can be used.

'Having thus described my invention, I claim--' The combination of the sill I provided with notches in its top, the pivoted frame-work D, In testimony whereof I affix my signature in provided with the cross-bars G I and projecpresence of two witnesses.

tions J and the pivoted brace the frameD being adapted to be adjusted into one posi- JOHN ROTH 5 tion to receive the wash-bench and into an- Witnesses:

other position to receive an ironing-board, SIMONP. HOCHSTETLER,

substantially as shown and described. JAMES E. CONLEY. 

